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Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Deluxe Box Set)
Ol’ Dirty Bastard may be facing a fate even worse than his early, untimely death in 2004. Always the quintessential wild card of the Wu-Tang Clan, Russell Jones (also known as Big Baby Jesus,
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Can: Tago Mago (40th Anniversary Edition)
Perhaps it’s something in our DNA that makes us susceptible. Maybe it’s in the very air we breathe. A leftover chemical weapon from Germany’s vast wartime experimentation. Whatever the case, there’s something about the
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Gish, Siamese Dream (Deluxe Editions)
Gish: Siamese Dream: If the post-nostalgia age has given us one worthwhile thing, it’s making the three sweetest words in the modern music lexicon “Deluxe Remastered Edition.” Once thought to be a quick cash-in
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Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
For Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) is the moment with which the band took total control of their ambition. On their third album, the quartet’s delightfully sociopathic personality came in the
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Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here: Experience Edition
Bob Dylan following up Highway 61 Revisited with Blonde on Blonde; A Tribe Called Quest laying down Midnight Marauders after Low End Theory; The Boss giving us Darkness on the Edge of Town three
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The Smiths: The Smiths Complete
“Reissue! Repackage! Repackage!/ Reevaluate the songs!/ Double-pack with a photograph/ Extra track and a tacky badge.” Ah, but let’s not be too hard on Morrissey. No doubt when he penned these lyrics all the
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Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (Experience Version)
What is there to say that’s been left unsaid by 40 years of rock writing concerning the multi-platinum, omnipresent chart fixture and, well, unsurpassed realization of the Rock Album as Art Form that we
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Social Climbers: Social Climbers
Social Climbers don’t have an entry on Wikipedia. Google “Social Climbers” and you’ll get results about upward economic mobility, scaling either the corporate ladder or mountains, or an unrelated book of the same name.
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Nirvana: Nevermind: 20th Anniversary Box Set
There is very little new that can be said about Nevermind. In the 20 years – an expanse of time that likely makes more than a few of us feel very, very old and
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